Back when Labor was tearing itself apart, Antony Albanese said he preferred to fight Tories. The opposition leader, for one, will grant him that wish. |OPINION by JacquelineMaley auspol
“Happy is the country,” said Tony Abbott, “which is more interested in sport than in politics.” Abbott was speaking after the 2013 election, which he won resoundingly. His landslide victory represented a return to the natural order, in his estimation.
, but they were pretty low-key about it Albanese didn’t get booed, as PMs so often do at the football. Indeed, the public reaction to him was quite the opposite. The prime minister confirmed to an FM radio station the next day that a bloke had come up to him in the loos during the match and asked if he was “someone famous”.“It is true,” Albanese told the radio hosts. “It’s a great country.”
The resolution of the fate of the Nadesalingam family, who on Friday were able to return to their adopted home of Biloela, Queensland, was a glimpse of how Australia might look without the sort of punitive policymaking that kept the family locked up for 1500 days. On Wednesday, federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen convened a meeting of his state and territory counterparts to forge a solution. He called the meeting “very co-operative and constructive” — not adjectives used for a while to describe a multilateral meeting.to phase out fossil fuels. It’s a plan to make a plan, but even so, it would have been impossible for the Morrison government to make such a resolution, paralysed as it was with internal division on fossil-fuel policy.
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